about IKJ

Jakarta as a city has a long history of the arts. Various cultural events have been colouring Jakarta life before and during colonialism in Indonesia. By the independence movement occurred in Jakarta, which reflects the movement as a reaction to the national awareness of the backwardness in the fields of education and culture due to colonization

Jakarta always familiar with the arts and artists. Jakarta has the artists appear as a pioneer of the national culture during the struggle for independence. They always play a role in the various political upheavals that occurred in the ground water, and then they will remain a pioneer in the field of arts development in the period. Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta with a cultural city, where art ideas born and developed, and the development of the arts of Indonesia found

Before the Sunda Kelapa into Bandar Pajajaran Hindu kingdom in the early 16th century, the Jakarta area has become host berths of various cultural influences, both foreign missionary archipelago, and from various regions in the ground water, color art Hindu, Buddhist, Islam, Dutch, English and Portuguese have bebaur in various forms of art in Jakarta. Now, Jakarta has become a cultural city that is open and rapid response will be the development and the latest creation from the outside

Jakarta also has a long tradition of a host for various forms of art that brought the region by the migrants, so that akultulturasi culture into a dynamic reality of life. There is always a passion of creating in Jakarta, and never stops. Jakarta is the gate and the scene, where the meeting regional and world art and the birth place of Indonesia's national art.

Read a series of cultural events that have occurred and ongoing, is an irony that until the 1967 city does not have a prestigious institution, which can be a container where many different forms of art created, developed, reviewed and Performed. Art is the spritual and dining needs of the soul, which is required by the Jakarta constantly busy with various issues of social, political and economic.

The legalited of JakartaArtCenter, Taman Ismail Marzuki on 10 November 1968 is a historic event, which is very encouraging artists and cultural Jakarta. Then, with the opening of a new campus by the Jakarta Arts Institute President Suharto on 25 June 1976 in the same complex, completeness Jakarta as a city pioneer and pioneer arts and culture have been fulfilled. In this campus will be incused paar youth and the educated to propel their future, and to determine the future of the arts in Indonesia